Cartoning-machine



E. D. ANDERSON.

CARTONING MACHINE.-

APPLICATION FILED MAY), 1917.

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E. D. ANDERSON.

CARTONING MACHINE;

APPLICATION FILED MAYIQ, 1917.

1,359,946. v Patented Nov. 23,1920.

UNITED STATES r QFFICE- f ERNEST n. ANDERSON, or NEW YORK, NQY; ASSIGNOR TOE. n; ANDERSON, I1\TC., on

NEW roan, N.-Y., A CORPORATION OF NE YORK.

OARTONING-MAGHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEsr D. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartoning Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for automatically charging articles or goods into receptacles, or cartons succes: sively, and has for its object to provide novel means for conveying receptacles or cartons to be charged with the required contents and discharging them from the machine.

My invention also comprises novel details of improvement and combinations of parts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine embodying my invention; Figs. 1 and 1 are respectively detail side and plan views of a portionof a conveyer for the receptacles or cartons to be opened, charged and closed; Fi .2 is a plan view, parts being removed; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view illustrating a portionof the conveyer and the opener for the receptacles; Fig. .4; is a detail side view, partly in section, of a portion of the conveyer, illustrating a receptacle opened therein; Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating feeding means for, collapsed receptacles or cartons, the figurebeing taken substantially on the line 55 in Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5.

Similar numerals 2 of reference indicate 1 corresponding parts in the several views.

a chain supported upon spaced plain idler wheel 4:, 5, journaled in bearings upon the main frame, a lower bight of'the conveyer passing under a driving sprocket wheel 6,

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented Nov. 23, 1920. Application filed May 19, 1917. Serial No. 169,678.

thatis secured upon a shaft -7 journaled upon standard 2, (Fig. 1). Any suitable,

means may be provided for operating said conveyer step by step. I have shown a drive shaft 8 that is journaled upon standand 2 and provided with a pinion 9 inmesh with a gear-10 secured upon a shaft 11 journaled upon standard 2. Said shaft may be provided with an arm 12 of a Geneva movement', the projection or roller 13 of which arm is adaptedto co5perate with the slotted portions of the wheel or member 14 ofsaid movementwhich is'secured upon shaft 7, whereby as shaft 7 is rotated step by step by said gearing and Geneva movement, the conveyer 3 will be correspondingly operated. Sald conveyer. is shown provided w th correspondingly spaced receivers or pockets 15 to receive receptacles or cartons 16. I In the example illustrated the receivers or the'pockets 15 are provided between adjustable walls or thelike15 spaced apart upon the respective blocks 3* of the conveyer, adapted to receive collapsed receptacles or cartons 16 to be opened in said receivers. In the form of conveyer illus-fi V trated the blocks 3 of the conveyer are channel-like on their inner sides and have holes in thelr side webs receiving pins or rods 3 con which links 3 are'journaled at opposite ends of the blocks, for connecting.

them together in 'the manner of achain; 'lheichannelsin the blocks receive and are guided bv the wheels 45, 5 and 6. The receptacles 16 rest in the pockets 15 and the walls 15." are shown slottedjat 15 to receive screws 15 that enter the blocks, (Figs. 1 and 4:) whereby said walls may be'adjusted and held by said screws, said wall being in front and back of the articles or receptacles carried on the conveyer. The arrangement is'such that the chain lengths may be divisible by the number of slots or stop teeth of the Geneva movement so that the same block 3 will always coact with the same Genevastop to assure thev presentation of the receptacle 16 on the corresponding block Geneva movement, correct registry of the pockets carrying the receptacles with respect to receptacle opening. and charging devices 15 made possible with a more or less loose the drive wheel.

'The adjustabillty of the walls 15 on the conveyer blocks enables the positioning of the receptacles on the blocks in proper relation to the corresponding Geneva stop and to the opener and charging devices. I have shown a suitable magazine 17 for retaining receptacles16 in stacked relation. Said magazine may be supported upon the main frame in any suitable manner to permit delivery successively of the lowermost receptacle or carton through the customary opening at the lower delivery corner of the magazine. The magazine is shown supported upon a plate 18 that is supported above table 1 of the main frame by uprights 1 (Fig. 1). The delivery end of plate 18 is'above the receivers of the conveyer, and upon plate 18 is a pusher 19 guided by guides 20 to reciprocate upon plate 18 to successively push receptacles or cartons 16 from the bottom of the magazine. The pusher 19 isadaptedto enter the magazine through a bottom space or opening 17 thereof (Fig. 6). Any suitable means may be provided to reciprocate pusher 19'. I have shown a link 21 pivotally connected with said pusher at 22 and pivotally connected'with a rock arm 23 secured upon a shaft .24 .journaled in a support 25 carried by table 1. A crank arm 26 secured to shaft 24 is adapted to be rocked by a rod 27 pivotally connected with a crank arm 28 on a shaft 29 (Fig. 1), journaled in bearings in standard 2. Rod 27 is shown pro vided with a universal joint at 30 (Figs 1 and 5) to accommodate different angular rangement so far described is such that as shaft 8 isrotated by any suitable prime movements of said rod as it is operated by crank 28,'such joint being shown attached to arm 26. Shaft 29 may be rocked for communicating rocking motion through rod 27 from crank arm 28 to crank arm 26. I have shown said shaft provided with a projection 31 connected to a reciprocativebar-33, the lower end of-which is forked to straddle and be guided by shaft 11, which bar is provided with a projectionor roller operated by ansuitable cam driven by shaft 11. The armover, the conveyer 3 will be moved step by step to bring its receivers successively to rest at one side of the delivery edge of plate 18, and pusher 19 will be reciprocated,

in timed relation to the movements of the conveyer, to push the receptacles 16 successively from the bottom of the magazine 17 to cause their deposit in the successive reabutment or stop (Figs. 1, 2, 5 and 6) shown pivotally supported at 38 between spaced arms 39 that are pivotally supportedat/IO (Figs. 1 and 2). l The arms 39 are normally above the line of travel of the receptacles within the conveyer to keep the receptacles from rising. The abutment or stop 37 is normally resisted by a spring 4C1 carried by an arm 39, and the lower end of said stop is shown provided with a hooked portion at 37 in position to be engaged by the up per forward edges of the receptacles 16, as they are carried along by the conveyer, to cause the receptacles to be snugged in the respective receivers of the conveyer. The arms 39 may be raised to lift the stop 37 out of the path of the receptacles, and to permit access to receptacles on the conveyer, whenever desired. A screw at 42 operative in a support a on table 1 is adapted to work in a threaded projection 39 on an arm 39 to retain 1 arms 39 in closed position over the conveyer (Figs. .1, 2 and 6).

When a receptacle has engaged stop 37 and thereby has been snugged in the receiver 15 of conveyer 3, the conveyer will be brought to rest-and the collapsed receptacle will be opened. I have shown an opener 13 through opening 36 in the opposing guide or abutment 36 (Fig.v 5). As the conveyer passes from wheel a it is shown adapted to rest upon a guide or way 44, suitably supported upon table 1, whereby the conveyer will be supported and guided for various operations upon the receptacles or cartons thereon, and whereby the receptacles will be retained in proper position on the conveyer when the opener 43 operates to open said re ceptacles, and when other operations are performed. Any suitableor well known means may be provided to reciprocate and rotatethe opener 43. The position of areceptacle 16 opened in a receiver of the conveyer is shown in Fig. 4. When the conveyer next steps forward the said opened receptacle will be advanced, and another succeeding collapsed receptacle will be brought by the conveyer in position opposite thev opener to be opened by it and seated in the corresponding receiver of the conveyer, in manner prebrought to rest on the conveyer, it may be charged with one or more articles accordingto the character of the goods to be packed.

-When the charged, closed and sealed receptacles 16 have been brought to position opposite the receiving end of guideway 136, they are successively delivered thereon from the conveyer.

My improvements embody simple and direct acting mechanism, timed to operate in proper order, and the conveyer is supported and operated in a simple and accurate manner, the construction of the conveyer having the adjustable Walls thereon providing simple means to enable the articles or receptacles to be positioned upon the conveyer accurately with respect to opening and other devices.

Changes may be .made in the details of construction and arrangements of parts set forth, as the same may be varied, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention what I claim is l. A conveyer comprising a plurality of blocks movably connected together, each of said blocks having spaced walls mounted thereon in front and back of the articles carried providing receivers for articles therebetween, and means to adjustably secure said walls to the blocks to regulate the positions otthe receivers thereon.

2. A conveyer comprising a plurality of blocks movably connected together, each of said blocks having spaced walls mounted thereon in front and back of the articles carried providing receivers for articles there'- between, said Walls having slots, and screws in said slots threaded in the blocks to permit adjustment of said walls with relation to the blocks to regulate the positions of the receivers on the blocks. I

3. A conveyer comprising a' plurality of blocks having channels on their inner sides and provided with receivers upon the 0p posite sides having adjustable walls in front and back of the articles to be carried, links movably connecting the blocks together with said channels opposing, plain faced idler Wheels for the conveyer adapted to enter the channels of said blocks, and means to propel the conveyer.

4. A conveyer comprising a plurality of blocks having channels on their inner sides and provided with receivers upon the opposite sides having adjustable walls in front a and back of the articles to be carried, links movably connecting the blocks together with their channels opposing, plain faced idler wheels for the conveyer adapted to enter the channels of said blocks, a sprocket wheel 7 cooperative with said blocks for operating the conveyer, and means to rotate said sprocket wheel.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 16th day of May, A. D. 1917.

ERNEST D. ANDERSON. Witnesses:

T. F. BoURNE, MARIE F. WAINWRIGHT. 

